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Heartfield, John
German (1891-1968)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Zum Fall Hamsun-Ossietzky Knut Hamsuns Kandidaten fur den Friedens Nobelpreis
PUBLISHED TITLE: On the occasion of the Hamsun-Ossietzky case Knut Hamsun's candidates
JOURNAL TITLE: "AIZ, Das Illustrierte Volksblatt", February 6, 1936, p. 96

1936
PUBLISHER: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
rotogravure print, rephotographed montage with typography
38.1 x 26.5 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Barbara Morgan
GEH NEG: 24489
76:0076:0003

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Evans, David. --John Heartfield: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung Volks Illustrierte, 1930-1938.-- New York: Kent Fine Art, Inc., 1992. p. 345.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Fotomontage: John Heartfield" "Zu den Portraits von Hitler und Goring wurden Originalaufnahmen unverandert verwendet." "Zum Fall Hamsun-Ossietzky Knut Hamsuns Kandidaten fur den Friedens- Nobelpreis" ["On the occasion of the Hamsun-Ossietzky case Knut Hamsun's candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize"]

NOTES: Catalogued 9/89, DZ. "Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938) was a pacifist and anti-Nazi journalist. He was arrested and interned after the Reichstag fire in 1933. In 1935, while still under arrest, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), a Norwegian novelist and former Nobel Prize winner, interviened on behalf of the Nazis. Using false documents supplied by the Gestapo, he tried to prove that Ossietzky was a traitor. Ossietzky was awarded the prize but was forbidden to accept it. In 1937 Hitler issued a decree which forbade any German to accept a Nobel Prize. Note the credit in the top right corner: 'Fotomontage: John Heartfield Zu den Portraits von Hitler und Goring wurden Originalaufnahmen unverandert verwendet" (Photomontage: John Heartfield. For the portraits of Hitler and Goring original photographs were used unchanged.)" [Evans, p. 344]

SUBJECT: genre, political

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